''Daadshah'' ( fa, دادشاه, translit=Dādšāh) is a 1983 Iranian Persian-language film depicting the life and experiences of
Baloch
Baloch, also spelled Baloch, Beluch and in other ways, may refer to:
* Baloch people, an ethnic group of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan
* Baluch, a small itinerant community of Afghanistan
* Balouch, Azad Kashmir, a town in Pakistan
* Baloch (s ...
rebel
Dad Shah
Mir Dad Shah (), also spelled Mir Daad Shah, was an Iranian Baloch farmer who lived in a village called Nillag within Iranian Balochistan. With the goal of securing an independent Balochistan and largely discontent with Iranian rule, Shah par ...
in the
Balochistan insurgency.
Plot
Mir Dad Shah or Mir Daad Shah was a farmer who lived in Nillag village of
Iranian Balochistan in the 1950s. He hated
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
, title = Shahanshah Aryamehr Bozorg Arteshtaran
, image = File:Shah_fullsize.jpg
, caption = Shah in 1973
, succession = Shah of Iran
, reign = 16 September 1941 – 11 February 1979
, coronation = 26 October ...
an oppressive administration which made him to pick up arms against shah. Daad Shah's wife Bibi Hatun also fought with him against his enemies. Dad Shah was support by
Iraq through local
Balochi Balochi, sometimes spelt in various other ways, may refer to:
* Balochi language, a language of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan
* an adjective for something related to the Baloch people, an ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan
* an adjecti ...
politician Mir Abdi, who went into self-exile in Iraq for his people national struggle. Dad Shah killed tribal chief Sardar Muhammad Darani of
Zahedan. Sardar Darani was the commander-in-chief of Zahedan area during Reza Shah. In 1957, Daad Shah's tribal chiefs who betrayed him, by called him for negotiation and where he was killed in a gun battle by Iranian Forces. Mir Abdi persuaded by the Shah to return to
Iran and gave privileges to stop his struggle for Baloch people. The struggle came to an end by an agreement between Iran and Iraq, where Iran stopped support for the
Kurdish struggle in Iraq, while Iraq deprived the Baloch from theirs. But later Iraq gave support to Balochi secretly till the 1980s, when
Iran–Iraq War began Balochi groups given large amount of support in financial and weapons.
The most comprehensive research about Dadsh movement wrote by Dr. Azim shahbakhsh in Persian which called “Pazhuhesh-i dar tārikh-i mo'āser-i Baluchistān: mājerā-i Dadshah," (1372, Shiraz, Iran, Navid) A survey in Balochistan contemporary history, Dadeshah adventure, 1993, Shiraz, Iran, Navid publisher.
External links
*http://www.barahoot.com/balouchestan/shakhsiyatha/Daadshah/Majara.htm
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070929195216/http://shopping.ketab.com/addprod.asp?id=20360&cat=3&cast=jafar+valli&pgs=1
*http://www.sarbaaz.com/daad_shaah.htm
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231146/http://irancinema.ir/films/?ac=to&co=70&se=
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231201/http://irancinema.ir/films/review/?co=70&se=
Iranian drama films
Persian-language films
Balochi-language films
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